This week a nice girl at my church gave me an extraordinary present.
She'd sewn it both with a machine and by hand, and stuffed it full of rice. She even offered it to me with an adorable little bow.
It functions much the same as my mother's rice-filled sock back home, which makes me wonder why on earth I didn't think to try it on my own, seeing as there's certainly no shortages of either socks or rice out here.
Just pop it in the microwave and bingo! Your own personal source of reusable heat.
I slept with it last night, and I have to say that it's the warmest sleep I've gotten here this winter. The weather's been at more than ten below freezing lately - and that's not counting windchill - so this is a really timely gift.
She'd sewn it both with a machine and by hand, and stuffed it full of rice. She even offered it to me with an adorable little bow.
It functions much the same as my mother's rice-filled sock back home, which makes me wonder why on earth I didn't think to try it on my own, seeing as there's certainly no shortages of either socks or rice out here.
Just pop it in the microwave and bingo! Your own personal source of reusable heat.
I slept with it last night, and I have to say that it's the warmest sleep I've gotten here this winter. The weather's been at more than ten below freezing lately - and that's not counting windchill - so this is a really timely gift.
